Zafar Iqbal, Ph.D.

Research Scientist,

Ford Motor Company, USA

Email: engr.iqbalzafar @ gmail.com

Research Interests


1. Wireless communications and coding theory

  • Message-passing decoding algorithms (LDPC, LT, LDGM, Raptor codes, ...)

  • Cooperative and relayed communication

  • Wireless sensor networks

2. Autonomous vehicles and machine learning

  • Sensor data fusion

  • LiDAR signal processing

  • Vehicular networks

3. Hardware implementation

  • Algorithm implementation

  • FPGA design and prototyping

  • ASIC development

Latest News

(Aug 19, 2021) Our work on convex optimization solvers at Michigan Tech has been published in IEEE Access. [Here]

(Feb 15, 2021) I have been elected Co-Vice Chair of the IEEE Santa Clara Valley Young Professionals (IEEE SCV YP) Executive Committee for 2021.

(June 14, 2018) My opinion regarding the Chinese FPGA technology published in an article in The Epoch Times, USA. [Here]

(June 30, 2017) Our recent paper in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics has been in the top-50 most accessed papers of April, and May, 2017.

Links of Interest


1. Ph.D. dissertation video on YouTube. [Here]